The smart dice cup: a radio controlled sentient interaction device

Authors:
Carsten Magerkurth;Timo Engelke;Carsten Röcker
Affiliations:
Fraunhofer IPSI, AMBIENTE – Smart Environments of the Future, Darmstadt, Germany;Fraunhofer IPSI, AMBIENTE – Smart Environments of the Future, Darmstadt, Germany;Fraunhofer IPSI, AMBIENTE – Smart Environments of the Future, Darmstadt, Germany
Venue:
ICEC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Entertainment Computing
Year:
2006

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the Smart Dice Cup, a novel interaction device aimed at gaming applications in smart home environments. The Smart Dice Cup is used in a similar way as a traditional leather dice cup to generate random numbers. Integrated accelerometers relate the shaking of the device to the resulting rolls of the dice. In addition to an autonomous stand-alone mode, where the Smart Dice Cup serves as self-sustained gaming system, the device is also capable of communicating with its surrounding environment serving as an input device for other pervasive gaming applications.